Trip Report Bay Lake Tower...Feb 2014...1 week, 2 park days, More Photos than Words....Done, Finally!

I always enjoy hearing about others trips I thought it was time I do my share so here is my first trip report. Hope you enjoy!

In August 2013 we confirmed a timeshare exchange for a 1 bedroom, lakeview room at Bay Lake Tower for February 23-March 2, 2014. So excited as BLT was our number one choice of where we wanted to stay. Once that was confirmed all the planning began, which I will skip, and get to the trip, and photos (we took 2985 photos during the week).

We decided to do a more relaxing trip this time and only go to the parks a couple days. We always plan to do all the "other Disney stuff" but never get around to it. This trip we planned on doing lots of things we never had done before.


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Sunday Feb 23 we flew from Northeast Ohio to Orlando. What a great winter to do a Disney vacation in late February! We took the first flight out of town and landed in Orlando by 9:15am! We let Mickey do all the driving, for the first time didn't rent a car and wasn't sure how it was going to work out. (Ended up working out very well!)

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It didn't take long and we were on our way! This was our bus driver's first day on his own and you could tell he was nervous and drove a bit slow. We got a "cruise" bus so our video was all cruise related.



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The monorail! We stopped at the Poly and Wilderness Lodge before our stop, the Contemporary!

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We knew we were there way before check in, it was before noon. We figured we would drop our stuff at Bell Services but first went to the desk at the Contemporary to check in and let them know we were there. The young lady at the desk took the time to call and see if they could find us a room that was ready, and we got lucky, they had one, so off to the room we went! Room 8411, 14th floor (of 16 floors!) I wanted a high floor so I was happy and of course a bit disappointed as I knew the odd numbered rooms had no chance of seeing the Kingdom, oh well, it is a Lakeview room.

Getting off the elevator we were treated to quite the view.....
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Elevator doors, I see Mickey!

After taking in the view for a couple minutes we were off to see what our room had in store for us....more tomorrow, tired from first day back at work!
 
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FlaggNL

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Great report so far! Very very nice pictures! Hope that we can take as much and as good pictures as you did on our October 2014 trip :)
 

mrsmtc

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DTD....they merchandise the Haunted Mansion items right next to the wedding items, just what do you think they are saying?

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Some trash cans aren't very exciting....

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We took the boat to Port Orleans, Riverside to have a look around...

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Contemporary Lobby
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That night we watched the fireworks from the Contemporary. There is an observation deck on the fourth floor, if you go up the stairs a couple fights you get a better view without the monorail track in the way.

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mrsmtc

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After the fireworks we headed to the Poly for some Dole Whip!

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Waiting for the elevator at night....

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On Thursday morning we went for the BoardWalk Ballyhoo Tour (it's free!). It was ok, not was I thought is was going to be. We stopped at the bakery for some breakfast before the tour.
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Mickey!

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Tinkerbell! Who knew? Our tour guide did! The carpet in front of the elevators in the BoardWalk Inn!
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After the tour we walked all the way around the Boardwalk area, stopped at the Beach Club as it started to rain a bit.


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mrsmtc

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DTD to Splittsville for lunch....don't hesitate just to walk in and have a look around. There are tables too where you can seat yourself, mostly by the bars. We loved it there with the bowling going on in the background.

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We sat upstairs.....kinds fun watching the waiters take the escalators upstairs with large trays of food, I could have never done it.

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Nachos were great!

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Rice bowls were YUM! Pretty big for the price, we took them back to eat later as we were pretty full from the nachos.
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mrsmtc

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Friday...EPCOT! See you soon Spaceship Earth! From our room...
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As the monorail would be down during the day we packed to stay the whole day and rented a locker to put our stuff in....worked out well. Of course we took the monorail over....
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We went on Friday hoping to get a glimpse of the Flower and Garden Show which was opening in a few days.....YEAH! We did get to see some of it!


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The excitement......LOCKERS! $12 for a small one which you can go in and out all day, ya get $5 back when you return the key.

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mrsmtc

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We headed straight for Soarin' as our FastPass was for Test Track......walked right on to Soarin', did the Living with the Land, Spaceship Earth and off for Test Track.


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Guess they wanted to remind us we had snow back home.....that wasn't nice!


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Yep, had to wait for the monorail, gotta have the pix with the monorail......at night some of the floating planters have lights on them....very pretty!
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mrsmtc

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We stopped at Spice Road Table.....we thought it was a bit over priced for what you get, even for Disney. Love the small plates idea.

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Hubby said his beer was a bit "skunky" tasting....


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Mixed skewers, that's what you get for $10 or $12 .....good but not much at all

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Hummus and Olives....could have used a couple more pieces of the bread.
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